Dr. Jimenez-Zepeda currently holds an academic position as Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Calgary and Clinician Scientist for the Tom Baker Cancer Center in Calgary, AB, Canada. He completed medical school at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico, and took Internal Medicine and Hematology training at the National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition in Mexico City. He obtained specialized training in lymphoma and myeloma and had the opportunity to undergo an elective training in hematology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation from March to May, 2004 under the mentorship of Dr. Gordan Srkalovic, where he learned about the fascinating biological aspects of a rare disease for hispanic population called Multiple Myeloma. He also went onto receive further training in hematology under the mentorships of Drs. Joan Blade and Armando Lopez-Guillermo in Barcelona, Spain in 2006. From 2007-2009, obtained bench training in genetics and myeloma under the supervision of Drs. Rafael Fonseca, Keith Stewart and Leif Bergsagel at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he received a grant award with a project of IL-6 and hepcidin in Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia funded by the International Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia Foundation.